The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prestigious Peace Prize, held its final meeting on Monday, as announced by the Nobel Institute today, just one day before announcing the 2025 winner. This timeline suggests that the winner’s name was selected well before the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which was reached under strong pressure from Donald Trump, who openly covets the Nobel Peace Prize. “The Nobel Committee’s final meeting took place on Monday,” Erik Orsheim, spokesperson for the Norwegian Nobel Institute, told AFP.
Israel and the Islamist organization reached a ceasefire agreement in Gaza and for the release of hostages, a crucial step toward ending two years of devastating war in Palestinian territory.
The five-member Nobel Committee generally makes its decision several days, or even weeks, before the official announcement, and meets one final time in the lead-up to the announcement. “The final steps were taken on Monday, but we never say when the Nobel Committee makes its decision,” Orsheim stated. No new committee meeting is scheduled before revealing the winner’s name tomorrow at 12:00 Greek time, according to the same source.
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“There will be a winner this year,” he declared, as some experts speculate that the Nobel Committee might not award a prize due to the deteriorating geopolitical situation.
Claiming a role in resolving multiple conflicts, Donald Trump insists, following his return to the White House in January, that he “deserves” the Nobel Prize.
Not receiving it would be an “insult” to the United States, he recently declared.
The agreement between Israel and Hamas “has absolutely no impact” on the 2025 winner selection because “the Nobel Committee has already made its decision,” historian Asle Sveen, a Nobel Prize expert, commented to AFP.
“Trump will not receive the prize this year. I’m 100% certain of that,” he stated, emphasizing that the American president has long “given free rein” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bomb Gaza and provided significant military aid to the Israeli army.
This year, 338 individuals and organizations have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded last year to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
